There's some of that and the teenagers do seem to turn out missing grit and determination and give up easily and do heroin. On the ground at the school though, i can see why it is done this way. It would be much worse if all the schools and teachers were just angry at the students for not doing their work and flunked nearly all of them.
Maybe it is mostly just where I am, in Southern California. At the schools I'm talking about, the students really do need to be encouraged to try to do well in school at all. A lot of the students, from low income and minority homes, would just quit and stop coming.
Here there are junior colleges too. In Southern California there are like fifty or more of them! It is like junior colleges have become an extra two years of high school and high schools, which is where teenagers go, is now like preparation for junior college which is now like trade school. In the high schools now, teachers are trying to get students to learn to come to class, take tests, get assignments in on time, get along with others in classes, etc...
It is sad that it used to be much better than this and people should try to make it better. I think though that since the 1960s and 1970s or something the school system is suddenly responsible for all girls, all African Americans, all illegal immigrants from Mexico, all native born Mexican kids, etc... So, the schools are responsible for having all these people come to school, even homeless children- I think in the United States there are like a million homeless children, so it is something to just get almost all of them to understand what school is and how it works by the time high school ends.
There's a weeding out process too where maybe the worst two percent or something end up jail or keep getting separated from the regular student population by being expelled and going to worse and worse schools.
It is like when someone is 20 years old now, it is like they are what someone was like when they were 16 before. So, high school is like extended grammar school and junior college is like what high school used to be.
This all sucks for the top 10% of high schools like this though. I can see where they'd feel like it was mostly dumbed down, but actually surprisingly it seems like kids in like calculus and physics classes seem to like the new way these schools work. They love all the rewards and stuff.
I'm sure schools were much better in previous generations, but what are you going to do?
I will say the good side of the whole thing though is that I bet in previous generations there were a lot of teachers that were unscrutinized and were not really doing much and there is so much scrutiny now that this doesn't happen nearly as much anymore. Like, you can see all the young teachers getting arrested for sex with students. That is something good coming from the way it is now. It is really heavily analyzed and scrutinized and shit like that is caught almost right away.
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Maybe it is mostly just where I am, in Southern California. At the schools I'm talking about, the students really do need to be encouraged to try to do well in school at all. A lot of the students, from low income and minority homes, would just quit and stop coming.
Here there are junior colleges too. In Southern California there are like fifty or more of them! It is like junior colleges have become an extra two years of high school and high schools, which is where teenagers go, is now like preparation for junior college which is now like trade school. In the high schools now, teachers are trying to get students to learn to come to class, take tests, get assignments in on time, get along with others in classes, etc...
It is sad that it used to be much better than this and people should try to make it better. I think though that since the 1960s and 1970s or something the school system is suddenly responsible for all girls, all African Americans, all illegal immigrants from Mexico, all native born Mexican kids, etc... So, the schools are responsible for having all these people come to school, even homeless children- I think in the United States there are like a million homeless children, so it is something to just get almost all of them to understand what school is and how it works by the time high school ends.
There's a weeding out process too where maybe the worst two percent or something end up jail or keep getting separated from the regular student population by being expelled and going to worse and worse schools.
It is like when someone is 20 years old now, it is like they are what someone was like when they were 16 before. So, high school is like extended grammar school and junior college is like what high school used to be.
This all sucks for the top 10% of high schools like this though. I can see where they'd feel like it was mostly dumbed down, but actually surprisingly it seems like kids in like calculus and physics classes seem to like the new way these schools work. They love all the rewards and stuff.
I'm sure schools were much better in previous generations, but what are you going to do?
I will say the good side of the whole thing though is that I bet in previous generations there were a lot of teachers that were unscrutinized and were not really doing much and there is so much scrutiny now that this doesn't happen nearly as much anymore. Like, you can see all the young teachers getting arrested for sex with students. That is something good coming from the way it is now. It is really heavily analyzed and scrutinized and shit like that is caught almost right away.